Western astrology
The classic Western zodiac: Sun, Moon, and rising sign. A clock time is required for the rising sign and houses.
How to read the chart
The rising sign is the tropical sign on the eastern horizon. It begins the houses. The Moon is the faster, more intimate rhythm. The Sun is the seasonal center most people already know. Read those three before treating any one of them as the whole person.
Planets describe functions, signs describe style, houses describe the area of life, and aspects describe the conversation between two points. Conjunction, opposition, trine, square, and sextile are the five majors on Inner Light. The orb is how far the angle may stand from exact and still be counted.
This page uses the tropical zodiac. The same birth details on the birth chart page also produce a sidereal Kundli. Neither frame is a correction of the other; they are two long-standing ways of naming the same sky.
A natal chart is a map of where the Sun, Moon, and planets stood at birth. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, aligned to the seasons, with 0° Aries at the March equinox. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, aligned to the stars, usually with the Lahiri ayanamsha. The planets are the same; the frame that names their signs differs, which is why a tropical Sun sign is often the sign after the sidereal one. Inner Light calculates both from one set of birth details.
